Greenway
Quick Facts
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| Dates: | The North-South Road was constructed in the last years of the Second Age It began to fall into decay from the seventeenth century of the Third Age1 |
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| Location: | Running north to south between the ancient kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor | ||||||||||||||
| Origins: | Built by Elendil and his sons | ||||||||||||||
| Race: | Men | ||||||||||||||
| Division: | Dúnedain | ||||||||||||||
| Settlements: | Probably2 originally ran between Annúminas and Osgiliath | ||||||||||||||
| Meaning: | From the ruined and overgrown state of the road in the later Third Age, especially the part that ran past Bree | ||||||||||||||
| Other names: | Originally known as the Great Road or the North-South Road | ||||||||||||||
The remnant of the old North-South Road
Especially in the northern parts of Middle-earth, the name given to the overgrown remains of the ancient North-South Road that ran from Gondor in the south to Arnor in the north.
Footnotes
| 1 | The seventeenth century is the only recorded date relevant to the decay of the North-South Road: it was the time when the maintainers of the road were withdrawn from Tharbad in its middle reaches, far to the south of Bree. At this time the North-kingdom had been at war for several hundred years, and the segment of the Road under its control may already have begun to fall into disrepair. |
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| 2 | Actually, the termini of the North-South Road are not established with certainty, but Annúminas and Osgiliath were the capitals of the North- and South-kingdoms at the time the road was built, and it seems unlikely that the Dúnedain would build a road across Middle-earth without connecting their two main cities. |
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